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Lamentations for Maundy Thursday 'Feria quinta in Coena Domini'

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'Delectable though this music is, it needs performers who can do it justice, and James O'Donnell and his choir do that and then some. Whether depictin ...'Although this music is likely to be unknown to most collectors it will prove, as it has to me, a welcome and important discovery' (The Tablet)» More

Vau: And from the daughter of Sion all beauty is departed; and her princes have become like harts searching for their pastures: and they flee without strength before the face of the pursuer.

Zain: Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and all her misery the desirable things which she had in earler days, when her people fell into the hands of the enemy, and she found no help: the enemies have seen her and mocked her sabbaths.

On the Mount of Olives he prayed to the Father: ‘Father, if it be possible let this chalice pass from me; however, let your will be done.’ Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation: the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

My soul is sorrowful even unto death; stay here and watch with me; now you will see the crowd which will surround me. You will take flight and I shall go to be sacrificed for you. Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation.